Constants¶

nothing¶

The singleton instance of type Void, used by convention when there is no value to return (as in a C void function). Can be converted to an empty Nullable value.

PROGRAM_FILE¶

A string containing the script name passed to Julia from the command line. Note that the script name remains unchanged from within included files. Alternatively see @__FILE__.

ARGS¶

An array of the command line arguments passed to Julia, as strings.

C_NULL¶

The C null pointer constant, sometimes used when calling external code.

VERSION¶

A VersionNumber object describing which version of Julia is in use. For details see Version Number Literals.

LOAD_PATH¶

An array of paths (as strings) where the require function looks for code.

JULIA_HOME¶

A string containing the full path to the directory containing the julia executable.

ANY¶

Equivalent to Any for dispatch purposes, but signals the compiler to skip code generation specialization for that field.

Sys.CPU_CORES¶

The number of CPU cores in the system.

Sys.WORD_SIZE¶

Standard word size on the current machine, in bits.

Sys.KERNEL¶

A symbol representing the name of the operating system, as returned by uname of the build configuration.

Sys.ARCH¶

A symbol representing the architecture of the build configuration.

Sys.MACHINE¶

A string containing the build triple.

See also:

STDIN STDOUT STDERR ENV ENDIAN_BOM Libc.MS_ASYNC Libc.MS_INVALIDATE Libc.MS_SYNC Libdl.DL_LOAD_PATH Libdl.RTLD_DEEPBIND Libdl.RTLD_LOCAL Libdl.RTLD_NOLOAD Libdl.RTLD_LAZY Libdl.RTLD_NOW Libdl.RTLD_GLOBAL Libdl.RTLD_NODELETE Libdl.RTLD_FIRST